homograft

In some cases a homograft - a human aortic valve-can be implanted.

Today, cryopreservation is the method of choice for homograft preservation.

Instead, replacement with an aortic valve homograft should be performed if feasible.

A homograft may be used to replace a diseased aortic or pulmonic valve.

Preliminary trials on long-term kidney homograft survivors.

The durability of homograft valves is probably the same as for porcine tissue valves.

The transplant is called an allograft, allogeneic transplant, or homograft.

The durability of homograft valves is comparable to porcine and bovine tissue valves.

The results of the pulmonary autograft procedure are likely to be superior with the use of fresh homograft valves.

A pulmonary homograft (pulmonary valve taken from a cadaver) is then used to replace the patient's own pulmonary valve.

Guttmann, R.D., Aust, J.B.: A germplasm transmitted alteration of histocompatibility in progeny of homograft tolerant mice.

The open-heart surgery is designed (1) to relieve the right ventricular outflow tract stenosis by careful resection of muscle and (2) to repair the VSD with a Gore-Tex patch or a homograft.

The pulmonary autograft, now widely known as the Ross procedure, first performed in 1967, was the logical development of the homograft: it involves replacing a patient's damaged aortic valve with his or her own pulmonary valve.

In 1962 he introduced, independently but simultaneously with Donald Ross in London, the human cadaveric aortic homograft for aortic valve replacement and for many years he worked to perfect valve preparation, emphasizing its inherent physiologic advantages and simplifying its surgical implant technique.